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We are reading in the news about CEO’s and upper management personnel resigning by the dozens because of sexual allegations made against them. Resigning themselves or being asked to resign a well paying high level job position because of a couple of complaints? This does not make sense. Something else has to be driving this phenomenon. Adultery, fornication, cheating, lying, stealth, manipulation, has been going on for some time in upper management personnel. Why the change now? What is happening to cause this. Is there something more about these high level resignations that is being kept quiet? It almost seems this is so. We are living in an age where there is very little privacy and very little that is not known or can not be known about individuals or groups of people. What could they have been doing that is so egregious that they are willing to step down for the most part without much protest? Devil worship and the (death sacrifice0 of children is what comes to my mind. Another thought is that the child sex trade is rampant in the USA. The average age of a child sex slave is 13 years old. This makes more sense to me in requiring resignations as it is illegal to have sex with a minor.

In my community in Canada an MLA stepped down from his political office during the last week stating his reason for doing this was so he could spend more time with his family and that he had been hunting illegally and was caught. In the newspaper at my grocery store today this MLA’s name and picture was released in the press (front page) stating that he has been charged with sexual interference and sexual assault of a minor child. He lied earlier to the press and the public about why he was resigning his position.

We may end up seeing something similar happening to leaders in the church. Leadership either stepping down or being required to step down because of their misbehavior, their apostasy from Christ, their mismanagement/ mistreatment of God’s people, other problems, etc. We have an obligation as a church congregation in our day to judge the leadership, to test the spirits, to hold leaders accountable to God. Leadership in the church must be pure, must be without reproach in their private and public lives. They must hold to very high values, have a determination to follow the word of God, to shepherd faithfully even if this costs them dearly personally and professionally. This is the example of the quality of early church leaders shown and taught to us in the NT scriptures.

Micah 6:8
He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

What must we do to work the works of God? We need to implement justice, morality, and rightness, today in our own lives. God is clear in his Word. What we do in our lives, and how we do it, matters to us, and to God. He has requirements of us. We need to do certain things in order to prosper spiritually and physically in our lives. We are told repeatedly throughout scripture that judgment from the Lord is coming. That God will judge the just and the unjust according to their works. He will judge the nations and peoples of the world. He will judge his own people.

Immorality and corruption are increasing in the environment where we live. We need to be looking to God for the ability to refuse temptations. Western governments and nations are rejecting God and his commandments today. Lying and deceit are everyday occurrences with those we deal with in business and everyday activities. We see this in the news about our financial organizations defrauding and deceiving their banking customers.

What are we to do? It’s not going to be ok for us to participate and do business the same way as the world around us. God has given us his commandments. They are laid out extensively in his Word. The ten commandments being the scaffold of what he requires of people. His Word is what we must follow. God has not left us defenseless as his people. We do not have the old nature that powerless against sin. We have choices as God’s people to do what is right. How do we do this?

Through the Holy Spirit. We need to be asking God for his Holy Spirit to be given to us in a measure that is responsive to what is happening today in our world and what is happening where we are living. This is individual, and also corporate, for us as God’s people. We are in a struggle and we need to overcome through God. Western Christians are experiencing opposition from their government leaders, education institutions, judicial legislation, and popular culture. What to do?

Stand with God, and do his will. Keep his commandments. Ask him to help you to do this. He will. Guard your heart, your mind, and do what is right. Avoid and rebuke temptations in the power of Jesus Christ. You will be richly rewarded in this life and in the eternal life that you will enter. ‘Well done thou good and faithful servant’.